Irvine, CA--On Monday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a plan to mandate health insurance coverage to nearly all of California’s 6.5 million uninsured. Under Schwarzenegger’s plan, all Californians would be required to have insurance, including those unwilling or unable to afford it; the poorest would be subsidized. 

According to Dr. Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute, “Gov. Schwarzenegger’s plan is a moral travesty, and must be rejected.

“The governor’s plan is immoral,” said Dr. Brook, “because it is based on the premise that the needs or desires of some people give them a claim on the lives and property of others. This vicious double standard turns the providers--doctors, hospitals, businesses--into the serfs of those deemed to be in need. There is no right to health coverage. The governor’s scheme, like other socialist healthcare schemes, requires wielding government force to violate the rights of untold individuals.”

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